Drunk Driving DUI Law

The funds used to treat repeat offenders for driving under the influence in Kansas have been cut by 70% by. Last the past fiscal year the state spent approximately $1.2 million to treat drivers convicted of their fourth Kansas DUI.
The decision to cut the funds comes after the passage of a new law requiring those [...]

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Kansas City Police arrested nine motorists for allegedly driving under the influence during a five-hour DUI checkpoint that began Friday night on Independence Avenue.
The checkpoint started at 11 p.m. and lasted until 4 a.m. today. During that time police stopped a total of 447 vehicles.
In addition to the nine DUI arrests, two were arrested for [...]

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While prosecutors can see previous DUI convictions, they have no way of seing DUI arrests or pending DUI cases. Or at least they’re not supposed to be able to. A new Kansas DUI bill is looking to change that.
The bill would require the state to compile a centralized database of driving records, which would include [...]

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The deaths of Claudia Mijares and her 4-year-old daughter in October — run down in a school crosswalk by a suspected drunken driver — horrified Aaron Jack. So a few days ago, the state representative from Andover introduced one of the toughest bills ever proposed in the Kansas Legislature to punish impaired drivers.
The Mijares’ deaths [...]

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According to the Kansas state board that studied how the Sunflower State prosecuted and punished drunk drivers, the Wichita Eagle reports:
The report, which was distributed to state legislators last month, criticized the state for:

Having laws that carry the same maximum penalty — a year in jail — for a fourth-, fifth- or 10th-time DUI offender.

“If [...]

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